Europe

In 1974, Portugal had the lowest wages and highest illiteracy in western Europe. Then came the Carnation Revolution

As a queer woman, I feel my identity is as important as anyone else’s. Yet where is my place of safety?

People in Tbilisi are protesting Georgia’s Russification. Instead, they want to be part of the EU

After six gender-based murders so far this year, Greek women now feel such tragedies are inevitable

In 2023, Catalonia’s drought halved wine production and this year is only expected to be worse

In Spargelzeit season, it’s hard to find a restaurant that doesn’t offer a special Spargel menu

In the age of the drone and the ballistic missile, national security does not come cheap

The brain drain of talent from the poorer south to the richer north has created a crisis in the country’s health sector

The Italian will be forever remembered for a wordless walk in a Viennese cemetery

Edvard Grieg may have been Norway’s greatest classical composer, but he actually inherited his name from his Scottish forebears

Thanks to a letter about delivery, The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula was finally attributed to its great master

It is sad and diminishing that our government is now effectively telling an important community it is no longer wanted

Readers should keep an eye open for vote-swapping websites in the run-up to the general election

A million of the club’s fans crammed into a city of 350,000 to celebrate their Copa del Rey victory. I was not anticipating to be one of them

Amid all the glories of Paris, the Pompidou Centre stands as a monument to modernism and to the man whose name it bears

The populist prime minster is on a crusade to turn the country’s pubic service broadcaster into a state-controlled institution

Despite not being a Francophile, post-Brexit Britain pushed me to find work and a future in France

Germany should accept the gift of 20,000 elephants from Botswana’s president, Mokgweetsi Masisi, with both remorse and open arms

You Are Not Alone, a powerful new documentary, follows the horrific attack that gripped Spain

In Brooklyn’s Little Odessa, Russians and Ukrainians live side by side, in the shadow of a distant conflict

For years, president Erdoğan won almost every election he contested despite a deteriorating economic outlook

A case brought by Swiss pensioners could be a turning point for the court

A dream provided an epitaph inadvertently appropriate for a man who spent his life producing art and literature that shocked and appalled the unsuspecting

People may assume that the word ‘cravat’ comes from French, but its ultimate linguistic origin is much more complicated

Off the west coast of Norway lies an island luring countless tourists to its shores for its salmon

ECM has been producing stylish jazz since 1969. But with its founder now 80, where do its solemn, spacious sounds go next?

The Judgement of Paris gives up its myriad secrets at the National Gallery

The Montenegrin has been the subject of a mock trial and effigy-burning over his latest novel, Anomaly

Presidential victory for an ally of pro-Russia PM Robert Fico gives Zelensky and the EU a new headache

In an exclusive extract from his new book, Will Hutton, journalist and author of The State We’re In, sets out how Labour can remake Britain

Turkey’s recent local elections shattered the president’s illusion of invincibility

Banning cruise ships may reduce pollution on the water, but it also creates its own set of issues